Live auction - Lot 859
[Apiculture - Florence imprint]
La coltivazione del sig. Luigi Alamanni, & le api del S. Giovanni Rucellai [...].
Florence, Filippo (II) Giunta, 1590
€ 400 / 600
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Lot description
8vo: [8]-308-[1-3 bl.] pp.
18th-c. sheep (corners sl. bumped), elabor. gilt flat spine with monogr. "P" at tail (sm. def. at head), red polished edges. Good copy.
Early edition of this didactic poem on agriculture by Luigi Alamanni (1495-1556), followed by the poem on bees by Giovanni Rucellai, written in Rome 1524, and published in 1539, with "Brevi annotationi sopra le ape" by Roberto Titi (pp. 253-280). Ref. Index Aurel. 102.056. - Edit16 611. - Adams A-412. - STC Italian (BL) p. 12. - Not in Machiels.